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lack-pity

lack-pity adjective: merciless; pitiless.

Adjective

lack-pity (comparative more lack-pity, superlative most lack-pity)

  1. merciless; pitiless
    • Each sore defeat of my defeated life / Faced and outfaced me in that bitter hour; / And turned to yearning palsy all my power, / And all my peace to strife, / Self stabbing self with keen lack-pity knife.1881, Christina Rossetti, “An Old-World Thicket”, in A Pageant and Other Poems, page 122

Forms of lack-pity

comparativemore lack-pity
superlativemost lack-pity

Origin of lack-pity

From lack + pity.

Questions about lack-pity

What does lack-pity mean?
Lack-pity means merciless; pitiless.
What part of speech is lack-pity?
Lack-pity is an adjective.

Words near lack-pity in the dictionary

  1. lack-love
  2. lack-loves
  3. lack-lustre
  4. lack-mind
  5. lack-minds
  6. lack-pity
  7. lack-wit
  8. lack-wits
  9. lackadaisic
  10. lackadaisical
  11. lackadaisicality

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